Thousands of young voices broke the silence that has enveloped the country under this regime. In different cities of the country, the «Marcha de la Generación Z», convened from social networks and amplified by collective exhaustion, gathered thousands of people who, in general, marched peacefully; in the heart of the capital, the reported figures indicated that 17 thousand people walked from the Ángel de la Independencia to the Zócalo.
Banners with slogans like «¡Fuera Morena!» and «¡Fuera Claudia!» were just a sample of the tremendous exhaustion that the regime has achieved in such a short time in government due to collusion with violence, association with corruption, and the benefits it has had under the shelter of impunity. In more than 25 states, similar echoes resounded; the march of Mexican youth rose not as a generational whim, but as a historical verdict against a regime that, under the shelter of «functional democracy,» has founded the narco-state that does not protect citizens, but rather pampers its subjects and vassals.
However, what began as a peaceful protest turned into clashes with the police, leaving more than 120 injured and 40 detained. Undoubtedly condemnable, but this was the result of a violent reaction from the authorities with the placement of a perimeter steel barrier that symbolizes that, more than protection, there is already an insurmountable separation between the regime and the citizenry.
Nevertheless, this march is the pulse of betrayed generations. Those born between 1997 and 2012 represent 25% of the Mexican population and see how their future evaporates in a whirlwind of bullets and official lies.
The government, heir to the convulsive and chaotic 4T, promised to separate itself from past corruption, but they have made corruption the system that makes it function, from the diversion of funds in pharaonic works to collusion with cartels, they tend to multiply like biblical plagues.
Although it has been said to satiety, violence has claimed more than 200,000 lives since 2018, with forced disappearances exceeding 110,000, but the characteristic trait of the system is to adorn the lie to say that this country is a paradise where law and order are the envy of developed and just nations.
Entire families flee their homes in terror from extortionate «fees», while highways are lawless routes. Young people, in particular, are the cruelest booty, forcibly recruited by organized crime or abandoned to labor precariousness with youth unemployment rates approaching 10% and wages that do not even cover the basic basket. The gag? Welfare Programs that no longer seem to deliver the results the regime wants: silence and submission.
Like never before, the field of politics is similar to a desolate and ravaged wasteland. Autonomous institutions have been demolished in the name of a «direct democracy» that concentrates power in a handful of loyal pawns, silencing critical voices with disqualifications from the presidential pulpit. Socially, family disintegration advances: educational policies that impose gender ideologies without dialogue with parents, fostering a «deconstruction» that relativizes human identity and sows confusion in classrooms and homes. The popular classes are booty of electoral banditry and the impunity, that slow but favorite poison of the decadent regime of this political ideology, corrodes everything. 99% of crimes go unpunished, perpetuating a cycle where the State, in tacit complicity or declared impotence, cedes territory to narcos who dictate the law in forgotten corners.
This march also has another social element that cannot go unnoticed. That was the prophetic message of the Mexican bishops at the close of their CXIX Plenary Assembly, on November 13. The clamor of the Catholic Church can no longer continue to keep a prudent silence nor do what is politically correct. With the title «Iglesia en México: Memoria y Profecía – Peregrinos de Esperanza hacia el Centenario de nuestros Mártires», the prelates do not avert their gaze from the «realities that we cannot remain silent about».
They denounce that «narrative that does not correspond to the everyday experience of millions»: the falsehood that violence has decreased when «entire families are displaced by the terror of organized crime»; impunity in cases of corruption «grave and scandalous»; the economy that «is doing well» for a few, while «many families cannot fill their basic basket». As it was a claim in the march, the bishops also denounced the pain for the spilled blood: «Our Nation continues under the dominion of the violent», with priests and young people «kidnapped and taken to the fields of corruption or extermination».
Beyond the denunciation, the episcopal message weaves hope into the 2025-2033 jubilee tapestry, recalling the Cristero resistance of 1926 –»¡Viva Cristo Rey!»– as a mirror for today: «Are we willing to defend our faith with the same radicalism?». The bishops call for «personal and social conversion» and dialogue with «all those who truly love Mexico», beyond ideologies. It is not pessimism, but evangelical realism: «Hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured into our hearts» (Rom 5,5).
The Marcha de la Generación Z is not just an outburst; it is the germ of an authentic and genuine transformation in the light of free and virtuous societies. Undoubtedly, the current regime can no longer be said to be left-wing since its failure is resounding and overwhelming. A change is urgent to stop the consequences of the narco-state that is destroying the future. May the government listen, not repress; may society dialogue, not divide; and for believers in the Word of the Gospel, so that the conversion of our reality is strengthened with the certainty that faith gives when shouting ¡Viva Cristo Rey! and ¡Santa María de Guadalupe!